Foundation Dietary Educator Practice provides you with the opportunity to effectively demonstrate clinical and public communication skills, through informing and educating clients and the public about nutrition and health promotion. The education you will provide will give clients the tools to make informed choices and be educated around relevant aspects health and topics of their interest. This is not an advice or a personalised service, but a starting point for clients to make good proactive and informed choices to start their nutrition journey. You are not expected to give reasons for symptoms but general education around what symptoms may be encouraged or improved as a result of certain eating patterns or nutrients. This is an opportunity for you to start providing nutrition consultations as a Dietary Educator before you are qualified in Nutritional Therapy, if you go on to complete your Dietary Educator certificate.
You will undertake a series of dietary educator role plays. In addition, you will upload the report that you prepared for one of the role play cases and write a reflection detailing your experience of the process.
If you have completed the BSc Hons Nutrition Science course you will be exempt from the Dietary Educator Consultation as you will have demonstrated these outcomes during level 4.
“Nutrition education is part of Applied Nutrition that focuses its resources toward learning, adaptation, and acceptance of healthy eating habits, according to one’s own food culture and scientific knowledge in nutrition, all with the ultimate aim of promoting health of the individual or community” Gil A. 2010. Tratado de Nutrición: Tomo III - Nutrición Humana en el Estado de Salud (2nd edition, 3rd Volume). Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana, S.A.
30 Lessons
Updated: Nov 2019
This module aims to provide various behavioral and knowledge resources that will enable the student to deal with the process of personal change and their self-development in the learning environment and to take a proactive role to ensure a positive outcome from their interactions with people, It will incorporate many of the core skills necessary for the development of Graduate Skills. It aims to enable the student to develop better linguistic skills and strategies to facilitate others to make desired change based on better communication, influence and the development of rapport.